It is interesting that some influential people here in the States are beginning to understand what's going on with Bush and the neo-cons... one Paul Craig Roberts...

Paul Craig is the best there is! At least when it comes to waking up fence-sitting whites, which is quite enought sometimes.

That article is now available at ICH:

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article11802.htm

More of PCR is better on this one:

Congress and the media have no fight in them, and neither, apparently, do the American people. Considering the feebleness of the opposition, perhaps the best strategy is for the opposition to shut up, not merely for our own safety but, more importantly, to remove any impediments to Bush administration self-destruction. The sooner the Bush administration realizes its goals of attacking Iran, Syria, and the Shia militias in Lebanon, the more likely the administration will collapse in the maelstrom before it achieves a viable police state...

Better yet:

...Perhaps we should go further and join the neocon chorus, urging on invasions of Iran and Syria and sending in the Marines to disarm Hizbullah in Lebanon... If Iraq hasn't beat the hubris out of what Gordon Prather aptly terms the "neo-crazies," US military adventures against Iran and Hizbullah will teach humility to the neo-crazies.

Then PCR gets shoulder to shoulder with this forum's bugbear, 911:

...Many patriotic readers have written to me expressing their frustration that fact and common sense cannot gain a toehold in a debate guided by hysteria and disinformation. Other readers write that 9/11 shields Bush from accountability, They challenge me to explain why three World Trade Center buildings on one day collapsed into their own footprints at free fall speed, an event outside the laws of physics except under conditions of controlled demolition. They insist that there is no stopping war and a police state as long as the government's story on 9/11 remains unchallenged.

They could be right. There are not many editors eager for writers to explore the glaring defects of the 9/11 Commission Report. One would think that if the report could stand analysis, there would not be a taboo against calling attention to the inadequacy of its explanations. We know the government lied about Iraqi WMD, but we believe the government told the truth about 9/11.

Roberts' articles are a goldmine. He has an excellent backfile at VDARE and remains a serious thorn in the neocon's side. PCR is a real conservative and they are very poor pretenders.

I'm also guessing Senor Jorge Boosh, alleged US president, would like not to hear anymore from PCR either, which is why I post every one of his articles wherever I legally may.

If American's truly lose our freedoms with all the wars the neocons are arranging, we may look back on Paul Craig Roberts as our Demosthenes. A thankless task maybe. But then we're still reading the original Demosthenes' Phillipics after 25 centuries, and PCR deserves to be remembered for at least as long.

All Paul Craig Roberts articles at VDARE: http://www.vdare.com/roberts/all_columns.htm

The years of illegal spying have given the Bush administration power over the media and the opposition. Journalists and Democratic politicians don't want to have their adulterous affairs broadcast over television or to see their favorite online porn sites revealed in headlines in the local press with their names attached. Only people willing to risk such disclosures can stand up for the country.

Huh. Maybe I haven't been paying enough attention, but I thought the way Bush got out of this one was by insisting that only potential domestic Al-Qaeda style people and organizations were targeted by the NSA and whoever else for eavesdropping. Not that I necessarily believe what the liars say, but there is a huge leap from spying on Arab troublemakers to spying on political opposition. I don't know how any of the spied upon would have put up with that, affairs and favorite porn sites be damned. I can understand them sucking it up on an individual basis, but if it's so widespread, it seems like the news outlets would be on their side anyway (being that they were also targeted), and wouldn't be posting their credit card bills and paparazzi snap shots on the evening news.

The NSA people must really take their oaths seriously, because you know there are a lot of them that don't go for this shit. I remember when the Patriot Act was first being debated, there were plenty of people in the FBI that said it violated all kinds of laws and regulations that they took very seriously. Maybe the people involved in the domestic spying were specially selected to eliminate anonymous leaks.